Fangirl Rambling

This could be about Star Trek, Mission: Impossible, The Man From U.N.C.L.E., Quantum Leap, U.F.O. and random ramblings. At the moment it's mostly about Peter Graves... No, okay. It's time to face my addiction. It's just about Peter Graves. That's it.

Wednesday, 10 February 2016

Peter Graves looking absolutely gorgeous appearing on the Dean Martin show in 1969 and 1970. You wouldn't think from looking at the top photos that their dresses were bright orange! But there's a snippet of this number, 'A Well Known Fact', in the memorial video on youtube, and there they are in orange nightdresses. (You can also see another few snippets of these shows, including a short bit of clarinet playing.)

Why, why, why aren't these Dean Martin episodes available online? I want to see more of Peter singing and dancing and playing the clarinet! And doesn't he look happy in the top one, surrounded with ladies?

Saturday, 10 October 2015

Peter Graves in natty trousers, I’m assuming at home, I’m assuming early 70s. Look at those bare ankles! I always thought when he wore things like this in Mission: Impossible that he must feel rather uncomfortable, but then he turns up lolling in armchairs wearing checked trousers out of choice.

Friday, 8 May 2015

There
have been a couple of two parter Mission: Impossible episodes, but
this is the only three parter. So here we are with The Falcon, Part1 (4 Jan. 1970). It could equally have been called The Magician, or The Prince, but
The Falcon is a cool title and the bird does do some cool work. The
Mission: Impossible Dossier has a lot to say about the recalcitrance
of the bird. ‘“The bird was awful,” Badiyi [the director]
recalls. “It would just stand around posing and wouldn’t do
anything.” When it did move, it was prone to disappear into the
soundstage rafters forcing its trainers to lure it down with live
animals as bait – a scene Lee Meriwether chose not to witness.’*
They gave up on the falcon except in the close-up scenes and used a
buzzard ‘made up to look like a falcon,’* prompting more problems
for Badiyi. ‘“The trainer told me that this bird would go where
it was supposed to go … but it wouldn’t take off. When it finally
did, it fell! The trainer told me there wasn’t enough wind while we
were on location. I asked, ‘Is that a bird or a kite?’ He got so
insulted he took his bird and was ready to go home. At last the bird
got up, flew away … and never came back! The trainer accused me of
insulting the bird.’”*

According
to the Dossier this was Lee Meriwether’s last outing on Mission,
and it’s such a shame not only because she’s so good at it, but
she seems to have such great rapport with the rest of the team, which
is not something that we saw in the same way with Lesley Ann Warren.
There are moments between her and Leonard Nimoy that just sparkle,
and the same goes for the other regulars. Season 4 of Mission often
still has the class of the previous seasons, and I can’t help but
think that having Lee Meriwether on for Season 5 might have cemented
some of that class.

I
have gone overboard with the capping here. There are lots of caps,
and a large percentage of them feature Paris’s hands. I won’t
apologise.

Jim’s
at a drive in movie place. Ah, the memories... I say that, but drive
in movies are not exactly suited to the clement British weather so
it’s not a phenomenon that caught on, and I probably would have
been too young anyway. If we had had them my parents probably would
have intended to take us, but never got round to it. But I’m sure
there are lots of memories here for some, which is why I’m capping
this.

Hi,
Jim!

I’m
feeling nostalgic despite myself.

So,
the mission. Prince Stephan was reported to have been killed, but
he’s not dead, he’s been imprisoned, so that his cousin Nicolai,
who seems to have a learning disability is the sovereign of the
country. The wicked General Sabattini, the evil stepmother in this
fairy tale, is trying to force Stephan’s fiancée Francesca to
marry him so that he will be able to inherit the throne. This sounds
about as complex as anything the British royal family could have
cooked up in the fifteenth century or so. This is important because
Sabattini will ally himself with America’s enemies.

Here’s
a close-up of one of the speakers, in case you want more nostalgia
than you can shake a stick at.

So
much for nostalgia. Let’s burn the f***er.

Ooh,
we’re going to have a nice leisurely agent-picking session in Jim’s
apartment. I like these.

Jim’s
been out having a nice evening snifter on his balcony. Now he’s
come to sit by the crackling real fire and pick his team. You go,
Jim. Enjoy the warmth of the flames on your back.

He’s
got his collar open and everything. Oh, Jim... It doesn’t take him
long to pick a team. It’s like dealing cards. Barney, Willy, Paris,
and -

Yay!
We get Lee Meriwether for three whole episodes. Now, imagine if
they’d stopped dithering and offered her a permanent job. Imagine
then that Leonard Nimoy hadn’t got bored of the lack of character
development, and Paris had evolved into a rich and luscious thing.
Imagine then that Lee Meriwether and Leonard Nimoy had both stayed on
into season five, six, seven – and then there had been an eighth
season, maybe more, because who’d drop the show then? Not to be
mean to the others. I liked Dana and I liked Casey even more. Casey
brought the show back to having a proper team. But just imagine...
(Oh, there’s also an anonymous guy that he picks – he turns out
to be called Sebastian, and his main function is to have the right
bone structure for a disguise – and the falcon. They pale after Lee
Meriwether.)

Hi
again, Jim! Jim’s just coming into his apartment from the
circus-tent-themed lobby.

The
team are waiting looking – well – I’d say looking suave, but
oh, Lee, your hair! And where’s Barney?

Jim’s
forgotten something and pops back, but – look! Two Jims! How does
this magic happen?!

Paris
says something here, but we can’t hear it. I don’t like being
denied his voice. They all look very pleased, anyway.

Where’s
the Barney? There’s the
Barney! This is in Jim’s doorway, and Barney is hiding behind with
a projector. Something cunning is going on.

Barney’s looking rather suave too, and talking about how long Jim’s
stride is and how long it will take him to walk across something.
They’re being typically cryptic. ‘How much air will she have,’
etc. I will be cryptic too, even though I know what they’re talking
about.

It’s Paris’s turn to be grilled (Jim sounds a bit like a teacher
here asking for a presentation from the class), so he starts reaching
inside Jim’s jacket. I don’t know who’s luckiest here.

Jim looks so pleased that Paris has produced a pack of cards from
Jim’s inner pocket that we have to assume Jim didn’t know they
were in there. Paris is, after all, a magician. Meanwhile, Jim is
making Paris look short. (The Dossier points out, ‘It is the only
episode in which Paris uses magic, and Nimoy enjoyed it. The actor
did a good job conjuring gold eggs and rare coins from thin air and
demonstrating a floating ball trick, all taught to him by
magician-actor Tony Giorgio, who appears in the show as the palace’s
foyer guard.’ (White, Patrick J. The Complete Mission: Impossible
Dossier. (London: Boxtree, 1996) p. 251)

We’re going to get some lovely shots of Paris’s hands here. Bear
with me.

Oh lord... That’s so close to Paris doing a Vulcan salute.

‘Magicians are an obsession with Nicolai,’ he says, and we get to
gaze at his fingertips.

Another little hand orgasm...

Let’s just have this one too, because there’s thumb in it. ‘Power
is an obsession with Sabatini.’

‘Ambition
will be the downfall of Vargas and Buccaro,’ he continues, looking
gorgeous all the while.

A
bit of back of the hand here.

And
some thumb. This really is hand porn.

Let’s
have a brief moment of face.

Excuse
me. I’m having a handgasm.

I
think Jim is too.

So
is Lee Meriwether. But oh god, that hair!!

‘And
that concludes Zastro’s performance. My next is set by royal
command.’ He looks so happy!

So
happy.

Of
course Barney’s impressed, but he’s naturally impassive.

Willy
is either impressed or trying to conceal the fact that his love eggs
have just started vibrating.

Look
how happy everyone is! Do you think Paris comes round of an evening
and just entertains them with card tricks? Does he get drunk by the
end of the evening and when everyone else has gone home (because I
imagine Barney can hold his liquor like a pro and putting alcohol in
Willy is probably like pouring it into a brick), Jim says, ‘Don’t
bother about a cab, Paris. Why don’t you stay here?’ and he falls
asleep on the settee with a glass of brandy next to him, and after a
while his arm slips off his chest and dangles to the floor, and Jim
smiles at him indulgently and tucks a blanket over him, and then goes
off to bed himself? In the morning Jim comes down and Paris is there
on the settee, still flaked out, and Jim starts cooking eggs and
bacon and making coffee, and Paris slowly comes around and his eyes
open, and he grunts a little and remembers where he is, and rubs a
hand over his face and head and leaves his hair delightfully tousled.
Do you think that ever happens?

Anyway...
Back to reality. Jim shows Paris the photo of Sebastian (you remember
I mentioned him when Jim picked the team?) and Paris says, ‘Bone
structure’s the same. Should be no problem.’ Something in his
voice here reminds me of Spock saying ‘I’d advise youse to keep
dialling, Oxmyx,’ in A Piece of the Action.

‘How
about the voice?’ he asks, affording me the chance for another cap.

He
is impressed by the guy’s voice on tape, sounding like Paris.
Everyone is so happy in this
scene.

That gives me a chance to show Paris looking lovely again. So many
caps, and only five and a half minutes in. Have I mentioned the
gorgeous grey silk neckscarf thing. I feel like I’ve forgotten the
term for these things. ‘What do you think, Lucifer?’ he asks.

And there in the corner of the room is the falcon, Lucifer. By what
the Dossier says, I think the name might be apt.

Okaaay. So, there’s a tour bus from the ‘Amsterdam Culture
Sociery’ on its way along the road. Do we recognise anyone on here?
Not the gentleman lurking on the left at the back with the hat and
the red-brown beard, surely?

But
wait! Those blue eyes! That nose! Could it be – could it possibly
be Jim?

Meanwhile, Barney and Willy are busy hitching up a trailer for Zastro
the Magician. I love the relationship between these two, the way
Willy casually pats Barney on the back as he moves past him, then
lets his other hand linger on his back. Sweet.

Paris has done something to his hair. It’s all curly. He’s
fitting a wig onto a man dressed identically. I think this is
Sebastian.

Lucky Sebastian gets to wear rubber. We get a moment of hand porn
again.

Well done, Paris! No one will ever tell!

Meanwhile, the baddies. This is Sabattini, played by John Vernon,
creepily stroking at his beard. According to IMDB he was a ‘prolific
stage-trained Canadian character player who made a career out of
convincingly playing crafty villains, morally-bankrupt officials and
heartless authority figures.’ That’s about right for this nasty
piece of work. Sabattini is all the more creepy because he’s
plotting to marry – and probably essentially rape – Francesca. He
just comes across as horrible in every way. Vernon was in six Mission
episodes, although three of them were the three parts of The Falcon.
The others were Movie, The Catafalque, and The Exchange.

Then we have Logan Ramsey, as Vargas. He’s another expert villain.
Do you remember him in Nicole as the extra-unpleasant Valdas (pretty
much the same name) with a strange chin prop on? He was also superb
as the morally corrupt Claudius in the Star Trek episode Bread and
Circuses. He’s also been in the Man from Uncle and two episodes of
Route 66.

As usual I’ve taken too many caps. Vargas and Sabattini are talking
darkly about the upcoming marriage between Sabattini and Francesca.
There’s something rather Shakespearian in all of this. Vargas and
Sabattini don’t entirely agree. Vargas wants Sabattini to go with
the Asian proposal. Sabattini is afraid that the Asians will throw
him out of power as soon as he’s got it. Vargas is afraid that
Francesca will wreck everything, but Sabattini doesn’t intend to
keep her around that long. Then there’s Nicolai, whose obsession
with clocks has just cost them ‘fifty thousand.’ What a tangled
web...

Meanwhile, Paris is still at work making up his counterpart. Hands,
eyes, hair. Oh.

The camera pans over to Tracey to see her opinion on the makeover,
then pans back in a clever little shot that must have Leonard Nimoy
and the other guy – Frank da Vinci as Sebastian (he who I just
mentioned in my caps of The Amnesiac, and who stood in many times for
Leonard Nimoy on Star Trek) – swap places while the camera is off
them.

And here is ‘Sebastian’ made up as Paris. Good work, Paris. And
lucky Tracey, who gets to fiddle with his hair.

The
tour bus that Jim is on has reached the palace now on their visit to
photograph the crown jewels and other artefacts. I’ll resist a cap.
I’ve taken too many. Suffice to say, they’re admitted to the
place without a hitch, and we learn that Sabattini has dastardly
plans for the crown jewels. So here they are being let into the area,
where the floor is pressurised as a anti-theft device. Here’s Jim
looking rather interesting with his red-brown hair and beard.

Jim’s
watching everything with the avid eye of a man who wants to steal the
jewels. He’s also doing something cunning with the end of his
walking stick on the floor, depositing some kind of bug.

For
once it’s not Barney-in-a-box. I’m not sure at this point if this
is Paris or Sebastian-as-Paris.

Ah,
here we go. Not to be outdone, Barney is slipping into his own box.

While
Sabattini and Vargas are arguing about the Asians and how much money
they need, Nicolai is in his room with his clocks. Dozens of clocks,
all ticking fast and slightly out of sync with one another.

He
really likes his clocks.

Sabattini
has come in to talk to him. Nicolai is sad because the two figures on
his clock won’t kiss, because the escape wheel is missing. He’s
too unhappy even to sign papers, which irritates Sabattini no end.

Nicolai
is played by Noel Harrison, and was the son of Rex Harrison. He’s
perhaps better known for being in The Girl from U.N.C.L.E. According
to IMDB he was a champion skier and represented Great Britain twice
at the Olympics. Well.

Sabattini
is a cunning bastard. He has the escape wheel in his pocket, and
slips it onto the table so that Nicolai agrees to sign the papers in
exchange for the wheel.

Sabattini
is more pissed off when he discovers that Nicolai has hired a
magician to entertain them at the wedding...

Ahh,
here’s Francesca (Diane Baker), who was being escorted out by
Vargas. Ugh. Of course Nicolai is delighted to see her.

She
looks every inch the princess, and also very sad and nervous. She
appeals briefly to Nicolai, calling out, ‘Nicki!’ but Nicolai is
distracted by one of his clocks, which is fifteen seconds off. ‘He
cannot help you,’ Sabattini intones in her ear. Her cry with the
diminutive for Nicolai is quite endearing, and only emphasises her
helplessness. Sabattini is taking her off to the prison where her
fiancé, Stephan, is being held.

Meanwhile,
Zastro’s train is turning up outside the palace, which was
presumably built to emulate mock-European Californian mansions.

Plenty
of use for Willy in this episode. Willy, be careful not to push it
down the hill! I think it’s flatter than it looks.

Now
Willy needs to wheel out Barney-in-a-box.

Tense
moment here as Willy is ordered to open the box for inspection. Willy
is speechless. Barney is nervous. We have to have an advert break
before Willy starts protesting that no one is allowed to see inside
the magician’s boxes. Luckily Nicolai steps in.

Once
Barney’s box is in position Barney gets to work, quietly, still
inside, with some of the niftiest gadgets I’ve seen him use. The
box has a hatch in the bottom, so Barney has direct access to the
floor beneath.

Meanwhile,
Jim is still in the palace’s jewel room, videoing, it seems.

I’m
not sure what to make of this look.

He’s
also being shifty...

...and
using his stick again, this time to deposit some kind of liquid on
the corners of one of the floor tiles.

Now
it’s time for Willy to wheel Paris in. He’s probably not so used
to this. (Still not sure if this is actually Paris, or
Sebastian-as-Paris. I think the latter.)

Lots
of rattling around and tilting.

This
is Barney’s awesome gadget. It’s a four sided saw that perfectly
cuts out around the edges of a single floor tile. Have you ever seen
anything so brilliant? As Barney is cutting, Willy is doing noisy
construction work outside to mask the noise. What a team!

(Not
so good for Greg Morris, though. The Dossier has, ‘“I hated that
saw,” Greg yells. “I had to crawl between floors and take out
tiles with this damn saw that weighed seventy pounds, at times lying
on my back!”’ (White,
Patrick J. The Complete Mission: Impossible Dossier. (London:
Boxtree, 1996) p. 250)

Seriously, how awesome is this? He’s cut out a perfect square and
is now nipping off down the hole in the floor! Marvellous.

Good lord, Barney, how much stuff did you have in there with you? I
mean, he already has the saw. So far he’s dropped down a small bag,
a large holdall, and this black container! (I’m slightly worried
about how much the floor bows when he puts weight on the edge.
Perhaps I’d better not mention it.)

While all this is going on, Nicolai is engrossed with his clocks, and
some nifty spectacles.

He’s finally got the figures to kiss, and is ecstatic.

And that’s a nice little segue with romantic music to Francesca and
Stephan kissing passionately in the prison.

Kissing behind bars, though. The music becomes melancholy. Poor
Stephan is chained to the wall.

It’s all very poignant. Francesca tries to talk about a winter ten
years ago when Nicolai had his servants make snowballs to throw.
Stephan wants to talk about now, and the future. Stephan is played by
Joseph Reale, and apparently also had an uncredited part as a guard
in Nicole (along with Logan Ramsay, and Dal Jenkins, who is an
officer at the prison in this episode. Quite the reunion!) Stephan is
anxious that she should marry Sabattini. She knows that Sabattini
will kill Stephan if she does. Stephan reminds her that he will kill
him anyway, but will also kill her if she doesn’t marry him.

Here’s Dal Jenkins on the left, as Rousek, as Francesca is dragged
away from Stephan.

While Jim is up above in the jewel room still, Barney is down below,
crawling under the floorboards with all of his bags. I bet he’d
give a lot for a battery-driven LED headtorch, rather than this wired
thing on his head.

Now Tracey is arriving, as Zastro’s mind-reading sidekick, in a
rather marvellous tweed outfit.

And here’s Paris (or Sebastian-as-Paris?) with the troublesome
bird. What was he called? Satan? No. Lucifer. I was almost right.

Nicolai is overcome with glee as Zastro’s arrival is announced, and
all his clocks start chiming too. I can see a little of his father in
him in this scene.

Oh my, Paris.

And look at Tracey in that outfit, with those boots. Dear god!

Paris introduces Lucifer to Nicolai.

Then he introduces Tracey as ‘the great mind reader, Madame
Zinsky.’

Tracey, I want that hat.

Oh god, Paris. (Nicolai is asking for a preview of his talents.)

He gets all showy and produces a gold egg from behind Nicolai’s
ear.

He then tips Nicolai’s ring out of Lucifer’s hood.

Good lord, Paris. He’s arrogant, commanding, and hot.

Barney is still under the floor. He’s got some kind of Geiger
counter which picks up the fluid that Jim left on the floor earlier.
It tells him precisely where the corners of the floor tile are.

Paris provides us with a little more magic in the form of exquisite
hand (and wrist) porn.

A little palm.

Some little finger. (Pinkie? if you’re American?)

And then some thumb.

Some knuckles and wrist. (Good god, this should be illegal.)

Some fingers.

And here we get to see knuckles and that lovely face.

And although now we’ve zoomed out from the hand, we can see his
face in focus as consolation.

This is pretty.

As is this. 112 caps and thirty-one and a half minutes. Oh well, may
as well be hanged for a wolf as – I can’t remember the rest of
the saying.

Barney hand porn? Somehow it’s not quite the same, although he does
have rather lovely hands. Anyway, he’s getting out his awesome
square saw again.

As Paris asks to be shown to his quarters, Barney flicks a switch
which activates a signal for Lucifer through the bug that Jim dropped
earlier. Off flies Lucifer... (Presumably a buzzard made up to look like Lucifer.)

Barney gets into position, and when Lucifer lands on the floor the
alarms go off, so Barney can use the saw.

Barney is getting covered in a fine sawdust. I do have to ask why he
never – or rarely – brings goggles for these type of things. I
mean, he’s wincing and blinking and turning his head. WEAR GOGGLES,
BARNEY!

This is the Best Tool Ever.

Paris is just in time to stop the guard from shooting Lucifer.

Hi, Barney!

Paris is slightly concerned as he waits for Lucifer to come to his
hand.

Still concerned.

He’s concerned because Barney is down below doing this...

...while up above a guard is doing this. It must be at moments like
this that Barney wonders about his chosen career path.

Paris is so concerned that we get to see an extreme close-up of his
eyes.

He asks them to clear the room because the falcon is frightened.

Barney’s really feeling the pressure, but the guard won’t clear
the room even under Nicolai’s orders.

I’m thinking this is eye porn. (Barney’s about to crack, and it’s
time for an advert break.)

And we’re back with Paris and a little more eye porn.

Paris flicks his control which gets Lucifer to return, flying past
the guard to make him step back. I’m not sure why he didn’t just
do this in the first place. But then we would have been denied the
eye porn, I suppose, and the sight of Barney straining under the
floor.

You don’t get the feeling there’s much love lost as Paris sticks
Lucifer’s hood back on him.

So now Barney’s free to get to the jewels...

Barney’s at work about to swap the jewels. Dear god, Barney, you
take some risks.

So, Francesca et al are back from the prison. Francesca is glum.

Barney’s busy swapping the jewels.

Sabattini
is even more horrid preening in front of three mirrors. There was asimilar motif with Logan Ramsey in Nicole. Obviously this is a
favourite device to show the duplicity of despots. And then in walks
Logan Ramsey himself, as Vargas, to tell him that the bishop will be
here shortly.

Ah, but will he? Here’s Willy, putting an early version of the
stinger to good use out on the country roads.

Barney is still at his lock-picking and jewellery swapping. He must
have a strong heart.

Willy has taken out the bishop’s car. Isn’t there something in
the Bible about that? Thou Shalt Not Delay a Bishop, or some such?

Sabattini takes a ring out of his safe in a nice segue from a shot of
Barney taking jewels out of cabinets. This might be the only real
piece of jewellery left. Then he asks Vargas, ‘How do I look?’
and we see that Vargas is duplicitous too, in this nice mirrored
image. Vargas tells him rather emotionally, ‘Like a king.’

Barney’s just finished, which is good, because Vargas is off to
fetch the crown for Francesca to wear during her marriage. Just like
I question why Barney doesn’t carry goggles, I question why he
almost always has such a light coloured bag. Surely it’s easier to
spot?

Barney’s stuck holding the floor together again as Vargas comes in
to get the crown. There’s no one standing on him this time, at
least.

Vargas has no idea that the crown is a fake.

The bishop is not being entirely patient. He slaps the car –
lightly, though.

But look! A rescue!

Willy is good at playing the simple peasant.

Luckily Barney has a jack for the hole in the floor.

You know, Barney, that’s not exactly flush.

Never mind about the tile. A Barney’s work is never done. He crawls
off through the cobwebs to his next task.

Meanwhile, Willy is fixing the bishop’s tyre. And that sounds like
a euphemism.

But that tyre is flat too. Bishop is not happy.

Willy gives the most wonderful little shrug at this.

Paris and Tracey have each striped off a layer. I don’t know who to
look at. God.

Wow, these two...

Is this hand porn or ring porn? She has amazing rings. She’s busy
giving things to Paris that he needs to take to Francesca.

My.

Off goes Paris onto the balcony. I mean, this is Mission: Impossible.
He can’t just walk to her room. It’s not him in the long shots,
sadly – but I suppose we should be glad he was kept safe.

This, on the other hand...

This is him.

Definitely him.

Yes, this is him.

And his feet.

And – other bits of him...

See. All him.

Francesca, meanwhile, is being maudlin over Stephan in her room.

She’s sad.

Oh! That was a cat she was lying on. I thought it was a cushion.

She doesn’t seem awfully surprised that someone was knocking at her
window.

Paris
explains that he’s here to help her but there’s little time... He
does it in that lovely soft Spock-voice.

‘Trust
me,’ he says. Would you not trust that face?

Sabattini
is still admiring
himself in front of the mirror. Whose the fairest of them all?
‘Paris, my lovely despotic ruler.’ (Sorry, Jim too, but we’re
focussing on Paris in this bit of the episode. It’s been a bit of a
holiday for Jim.)

There’s so much hand porn in this episode.

He’s handed her all the things she needs and told her the whole
plan while we were watching Sabattini admiring himself. There’s a
gun with a real bullet and a blank, fake blood, a pill that will
simulate death...

Hand porn, eye porn...

But, oh no! Sabattini has come in!

She’s still holding the gun and things behind her back. He tells
her, ‘I have decided to give you your wedding gift before the
wedding.’ I think it would surprise no one if he revealed his
wedding gift were sex, but no, it’s Stephan’s life, he says.

Paris
is still outside, listening...

I
like this image. There’s so much of the fairy-tale about this
episode. When Francesca turns around she has to sneakily transfer the
things she’s holding to in front of her. When she turns around
again she has to put them behind her back. Sabattini notices...

Paris
is worried.

Paris is thinking...

He throws a coin at the hapless cat, and it snarls and jumps up. In a
sleight of hand worthy of Paris himself Francesca hides the things
behind her jewellery box, and picks up a locket.

Phew.

Vargas has come in with the crown – now the fake crown – that she
will wear later at the wedding. She’s not best pleased.

There’s
a brief reminder that Barney is still
crawling around under the floor.

Meanwhile, Paris is climbing back down the trellis, like a reverse
Prince Charming.

But, oh! The trellis breaks, and a man who isn’t Leonard Nimoy is
left hanging from the edge of the balcony!!

About Me

Graduate of English Literature (BA, 1st Class) and of Early Mediaeval Studies (MA), mother to three children, frequent depressive, optimist, stuck in a teenage mindset, liable to become lovestruck, writer of novels (which are available at http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/coffeebeancamelathotmaildotcom )